On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:54:30PM +0200, I.J.W Wever wrote: > As would I. If I open my window too far, the bloody birds > invade my room. They shit on everything and try to build > nests. I like fresh air... You should feel honoured. You must be a basically good-hearted person, or they wouldn't be so keen on your room. A few suggestions: - Get some of that two-inch white plastic mesh stuff that garden stores sell for plants to grow up, and put it over your window. It doesn't have to be particularly securely fixed; as long as they can see it blocking the window, they're unlikely to try and break through. - Hang a selection of brightly-coloured balloons in your window, so the gap is filled with large, bright objects all moving in the breeze: use white plant-fibre parcel string, to make the strings obvious. - Let them build nests, watch them raise the chicks, make friends with the chicks. That's how my pigeon enthusiasm got started, and it has added a major source of happiness to my life. There's nothing quite like hacking away with a friendly columbine weight on my shoulder, occasionally trying to stick her beak in my mouth; or going to sleep with the soft, soothing 'awk, awk, awk' of a contented pigeon snuggling up to the pillow in my ears. - Chop up the wiring looms from scrap cars into 6-9" lengths, separate all the individual wires and scatter them about. When the pigeons have finished raising their chicks, pot the nests in resin and sell them as objets d'art. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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